0 clothes, sheets, etc. that a young woman traditionally collects for use after she is married: --
Kate's grandmother gave her a quilt for her bottom drawer.
I wonder how many of them are now lying in bottom drawers or whether that number was a true appraisal of the needs.
I did not for one moment think that there was a bottom drawer or, even if there was, that he would tell me what is in it.
Even the merest teen-ager in my constituency starts with her bottom drawer in anticipation, in hope deferred, as all maiden ladies do, even though the man never comes along.
What happens to the bottom drawer?
Other authorities have adopted a practice of preparing "informal"or"bottom drawer" plans as a basis of development control, without subjecting them to proper procedures of public consultation and formal adoption.
Like a rocket, it excited a moment or two's attention, but it and its lessons are now locked away in an anonymous bottom drawer.
In the early years of this century, in working-class homes at any rate, they brought something called a bottom drawer to their marriages.
No—just like with every ceasefire that they have ever had, the plans are in the bottom drawer.
